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  1. Re: Microduct on Google Fiber To Pay Nearly $4 Million To Louisville In Exit Deal (wdrb.com) · · Score: 1

    Why did they have to go with that technique? It doesn't make sense to me. With modern tools, digging a deeper hole isn't the hard part.

  2. Re:Genetic distance on Fake Mouse On Twitter Mocks Overgeneralized Scientific Research (twitter.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you have a better idea?

  3. Re:Will this academic question climate 'scientists on Fake Mouse On Twitter Mocks Overgeneralized Scientific Research (twitter.com) · · Score: 1

    It's ok, I've already started a twitter for climate scientists. After every paper, I append, "on earth." "Glaciers melting" on earth. "Oceans rising" on earth. I'm just sick of these ETs getting too hyperbolic misinterpreting the material on their own planet, the heliocentric fools.

  4. Re: Politician IQ needs raising first on Top US Congressman Says Silicon Valley's Self-Regulating Days 'Probably Should Be' Over (recode.net) · · Score: 2

    Anarchy and violence until people get tired of it. On a more personal level, recognize what is coming and prepare for it.

  5. Re:Also explores security issues on Dragons, Nuclear Weapons, and Game of Thrones (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 1

    A major spoiler here if you've not watched the previous seasons, but taking your dragons deep into the heart of the undead kingdom was exceedingly stupid, basically like having a cavalier attitude to nuclear weapon security and handing over a Fat Man to a rogue nation.

    That's what Russia almost did with Cuba, right?

  6. Re:This same tired tripe was tried on LOTR: on Dragons, Nuclear Weapons, and Game of Thrones (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 1

    Don't expect a good ending to the series.

  7. Re: You need to understand the reviews on Scammers Are Buying Thousands Of Fake 5-Star Amazon Reviews -- on Facebook (thehustle.co) · · Score: 2

    It's because in a world where people review each other (airbnb especially), it's not worth risking retaliation in order to leave a bad review. So you see 5 star reviews that say things like, "I especially enjoyed the mold in the bathtub, nice touch!"

  8. Re: Better plan on Amazon Helps Cops Set Up Package Theft Sting Operations (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    They seem to be deployed mainly inside grocery stores and even some new apartment buildings. They don't take much room, they are like lockers. I don't think Amazon owns any of the real estate. It is probably cost effective because they can drop it all off at one location, instead of individually to eacch address.

  9. I'm ok with that, as long as he pays them for it, and they have options at other companies if they don't like it. Some people want to work long hours, and I don't judge them.

  10. Re: Politician IQ needs raising first on Top US Congressman Says Silicon Valley's Self-Regulating Days 'Probably Should Be' Over (recode.net) · · Score: 2

    It's up to the voters to fix the problem. Nobody else can do it

    That's true. You can't help it if the voters want to elect a king.

  11. Re: Politician IQ needs raising first on Top US Congressman Says Silicon Valley's Self-Regulating Days 'Probably Should Be' Over (recode.net) · · Score: 2

    An experienced politician keeps raising the price. Check out the Medicare “doc fix” for an example. Those politicains got a ton of cash from the lobbyists.

  12. Re: Politician IQ needs raising first on Top US Congressman Says Silicon Valley's Self-Regulating Days 'Probably Should Be' Over (recode.net) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That kind of thing gives more power to lobbyists, because they don't retire, and continually gain experience in how to manipulate fresh politicians.

  13. Re:Deadman's switch? on Ecuador Jails Swedish Programmer Over Alleged Ties To WikiLeaks (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    it's not unreasonable to wait a week and see if Julian cleaned up and with a shave talks reasonable at a press conference

    That seems unlikely. He's not going to be treated well.

  14. Re: An antarctic expedition? on Flat Earther Now Wants to Launch His Homemade Rocket Into Space (phillyvoice.com) · · Score: 1

    Now you have the spirit!

  15. Re:An antarctic expedition? on Flat Earther Now Wants to Launch His Homemade Rocket Into Space (phillyvoice.com) · · Score: 1

    I tell you there is money to be made off these fools.,

    This is a guy who is making money off these fools. They are paying for his rocket.

  16. Re:they run their business like a JavaScript repos on NPM Apologizes For the Way It Handled Recent Staff Layoffs (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It's clever if your goal is to create a company of sycophants/country who don't think for themselves.

  17. You'll be lucky if we get self-driving cars by 2015.

  18. I'm on Slashdot, I'm using Linux. At least get the OS right.

  19. C# yield is very nice.

  20. Swift is crap. The major complaint about Objective-C was that it had all the baggage of C. Well guess what? Swift has all the baggage of C *and* Objective-C. It's hard to be a language designer these days because you need to know all the language paradigms and good ideas in other languages, so I have sympathy for the Swift designers, but not the language. Oh, and while we're at it, Xcode looks like it was built by UX designers, not by people with domain knowledge of the programming ecosystem.

  21. Next thing you know, Google will insert advertising into their search results.

  22. Re:GPS was fine last time on Magnetic Field Reversals Unlikely To Be a Problem For Life, Says Astronomer (arxiv.org) · · Score: 1

    It wasn't that easy, all the geostationary satellites in existence had to be recalibrated, and all the satellites at 20k kilometers had to reverse direction. In the end, they all got sorted out.

  23. they run their business like a JavaScript reposito on NPM Apologizes For the Way It Handled Recent Staff Layoffs (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    âoeThere was recently an all-hands meeting at which employees were encouraged to ask frank questions about the company's new direction. Those who spoke up were summarily fired last week, the individual said, at the recommendation of an HR consultant.â

    I expect nothing less than short-term thinking from a JavaScript company. NPM has a nice user interface for programmers but it falls down in basically every other possible way.

  24. Now we can figure out that P=NP problem that nobody can give a coherent answer on why its even a thing.

    I think that problem is you tbh, if you don't understand it.

  25. Re:Seems quite a lot larger... on Old-School Slashdotter Discovers and Solves Longstanding Flaw In Basic Calculus (mindmatters.ai) · · Score: 1

    Now I don't feel bad that the notation never made any sense to me.